FCC chairman Tom Wheeler says he wants to be the Internet's referee. He's used that description of how he see's the FCC role in managing the broadband ecosystem several times, most recently in a Colorado speech where he talked about his proposal to bring the Internet under common carrier regulations...

The proposal also looks forward into the broadband future to assure there are basic ground rules and a referee on the field to e

Wired networks account for only two of the 52 public housing grant proposals made to the California Public Utilities Commission in the first round of applications. The rest either rely on WiFi – mesh networks, mostly – or, in the case of 24 projects proposed by the San Bernardino County housing authority, don't specify a technology type.

Promised service speeds are consistent with both the technology proposed and the CPUC's disappointing low minimum of 1.5 Mb

The days of plain old telephone service aren't behind us yet, but the time will come — sooner rather than later — when all telecoms services, including voice, run over Internet protocol systems. The switch from copper to end-to-end fiber is a bit further down the road, but it's near enough that practical questions about it have to be dealt with now.

Yesterday, the California Public Utilities Commission offered its suggestions on how to do that to the FCC, unanimously approving comments for the feds to consider. Despite the fact that the primary author described the docu